01-HS020_-_Executed_Agreement_Redacted.pdf

This is an executed agreement between Escambia County, Florida and a selected consulting firm for Owner's Representative and Construction, Engineering, and Inspection (CEI) Services for the Century Community Shelter project. The project encompasses programming, preliminary design up to 30%, construction administration, and CEI services for a single-story emergency shelter approximately 16,000 square feet located at 720 Hecker Road in Century, Florida. The facility is designed to serve as both an emergency shelter and multi-purpose community facility, addressing infrastructure damage from Hurricane Sally in 2020 and an EF-3 tornado in 2016. The contract term spans the life of the project and commences upon Notice to Proceed from the County. The agreement was executed on August 12-13, 2024, with electronic signatures documented through DocuSign.

The project is funded through a $10,015,000.00 federal Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grant. The selected firm must maintain $2 million in general liability insurance coverage. The contract includes mandatory Section 3 compliance requirements, with numeric goals of 25% of total project hours worked by Section 3 workers and 5% by Targeted Section 3 workers, and the County implemented a preference system favoring bidders with the highest number of qualified Section 3 subcontractors or workers provided their bid is within 10% of the lowest responsive bid. Businesses qualify as Section 3 Business Concerns if they are 51% owned by low-income individuals or have 75% of work hours performed by Section 3 workers. Non-compliance sanctions include contract termination, default, and potential debarment from future HUD-assisted contracts.